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If you think being straight is a choice, then I would like to recommend you read this. Because science.

UPDATE: You may be asking yourself, "Why the hell does this even matter?" The reason I posted this is the constant barrage of "lifestyle choice" and "they can change" comments I get from people who A. think that being gay is somehow a bad thing, 2. think that anyone can really choose who they are attracted to, and III. say science isn't a real thing.

Gender and sexual orientation are clearly not binaries of either/or. There are people all over the spectrum between straight and LGBTQQ who live their lives how they want to live them, and no amount of science that currently exists can pigeonhole them into one thing.

These findings are not to be taken as "If your hair goes this direction, you have to be this one thing." All they do is help us understand some underlying genetic traits of some human beings on this planet who are no better or worse than other human beings on this planet. Your finger length does not define who you are. Your birth order does not define who you are. Your brain size does not define who you are. You do.

At the end of the day, it's nobody's business but the person whose life it is and the consenting adult they choose to love or not love. I just wanted an extra tool in my arsenal the next time some jerk tries to dismiss an entire community of people based on their own irrational fear of things they don't understand or aren't willing to understand.